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The Defence-Economy Paradox: Why Decarbonisation Has Become Defence Strategy
This blog is the second in the SIP blog series, a set of blogs shared among the partners of the Sustainable Innovation Pathways project. This cross-border, collaborative effort brings together foresight, financial forecasting and technology readiness levels to understand where companies, industries, and countries can best decarbonise. In the first blog in this series about our Sustainable Investment Pathways (SIP) initiative, we argued that net zero has moved from being an e
4 days ago6 min read
The EXTRA Information Hub
The EXTRA Information Hub is a new initiative of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS). The World Academy of Arts and...
Oct 84 min read
Resilience 2.0: Empowering the EU to Thrive amid Turbulence and Uncertainty
The EU’s 2025 Strategic Foresight Report focuses on resilience, dealing with the increasing levels of uncertainty in its environment. It...
Sep 245 min read
The Shape of Things to Come – Today Part 2
In part 1 of this blog, I looked at H.G. Wells’s novel The Shape of Things to Come , published in 1933, and examined what he got right...
Jun 254 min read
The Shape of Things to Come – Today: Part 1
Introduction Not nearly enough attention is paid today to H.G. Wells , one of the giants of foresight. What is distinctive about his...
Jun 185 min read
The UN Summit of the Future: Part 3
THE AFTERMATH In my two earlier blogs, I looked at what occurred at the Summit and the outcome document. In this third blog, I shall...
Jun 114 min read
The UN Summit of the Future: Part 2
THE PROCEEDINGS AND THE IMMEDIATE REACTION In my first blog on the UN Summit of the Future I considered the outcome document: “The Pact...
Jun 44 min read
The UN Summit of the Future: Part 1
THE OUTCOME DOCUMENT: “PACT FOR THE FUTURE” Introduction In September, 2021, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, published a...
May 295 min read
Futures Practice in an Age of AI – Beyond Prediction to Engagement
This is an edited version of the presentation which Jonathan Blanchard Smith delivered to the Futures4Europe Conference 2025, held in...
May 224 min read
Beyond Scenarios: Five Ways AI Is Reshaping Strategic Foresight
Most of us who think about the future—professionally, strategically, or just out of curiosity—have probably tried asking ChatGPT to...
May 155 min read
Drivers of change – faster and faster, deeper and wider
SAMI continues to maintain and track key drivers of change through ongoing horizon scanning, and we noted a couple of years ago that the...
Apr 27 min read
Heathrow – black swan or white elephant?
It is a week since a fire at an electricity substation forced the closure of Heathrow airport for 24 hours, much to annoyance of several...
Mar 283 min read
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